PEN Presents: Who's Afraid of Free Speech?

PEN PRESENTS: "Who's Afraid of Free Speech?" Powered by Google in conjunction with The Atlantic brought together David Simon (HBO's The Wire), E.L. Doctorow (Ragtime), Masha Gessen (The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin), Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran), and moderator James Fallows of The Atlantic to the forefront of the massive surveillance debate playing out on Capitol Hill and in the headlines.

The panelists reflect on the relationship between privacy, identity, self-expression, and censorship to address challenges to free expression in the digital age, including the impact of surveillance on creative freedom, the disintegration of geographic boundaries and cultural context online, and the powers exerted by corporations as the new de facto content adjudicators.